Get password from keychain (OSX) - Bash Snipplr Social Repository

Revision: 70053

at November 11, 2015 09:58 by alfirth

Initial Code

get_pw () {
  security 2>&1 >/dev/null find-generic-password -ga $USER 
  |ruby -e 'print $1 if STDIN.gets =~ /^password: "(.*)"$/'
}

Initial URL

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20130722033452283

Initial Description

Get password from keychain (OSX)

Initial Title

Get password from keychain (OSX)

Initial Tags

osx

Initial Language

Bash